Can't Hardly Wait

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Cast & Crew

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Amanda Beckett

Ethan Embry

Preston Meyers

Charlie Korsmo

William Lichter

Lauren Ambrose

Denise Fleming

Peter Facinelli

Mike Dexter

Seth Green

Kenny Fisher

Michelle Brookhurst

Girl Whose Party It Is

Alexander Martin

Exchange Student

Erik Palladino

Cousin Ron

Jenno Topping

Producer

Betty Thomas

Producer

Deborah Kaplan

Director

Harry Elfont

Director

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Critic Reviews for Can't Hardly Wait

Audience Reviews for Can't Hardly Wait

• Dec 20, 2015

  I really enjoyed this. I like how it takes a look at all the typical high school cliques and cliches and reevaluates them, and surprises the audience. All in all, this was just a really cool film, basically a 90s classic.

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  Stephen S Super Reviewer
• Aug 01, 2013

  Can't Hardly Wait is an entertaining and fun teen comedy that's surprisingly insightful. A high school graduation party proves to be a watershed moment as several characters take their last shots at love, revenge, redemption, and friendship. While the story's a bit generic, to also takes the characters on a journey of self-discover that's more thoughtful than one would expect from a teen film. Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Seth Green, Jaime Pressly, and Freddy Rodríguez, the cast is quite impressive, and their performances do a good job at giving some personality to these otherwise stereotypical characters. Additionally, the film has an excellent soundtrack that has a lot of energy and captures the tone of the material. Despite some flaws, Can't Hardly Wait speaks to the '90s high school experience in a way that few films of the time were able to.

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  Super Reviewer
• Jun 28, 2012

  Decent Teen comedy, but nothing ever great, Can't Hardly Wait is one of those films that could have been better, but still has enough charm to really make it a fun film to watch. The film is quite forgettable, but manages to be fun for the time you're watching it. However it does not stand out among other Teen comedies. Can't Hardly Wait is mindless fun, but lacks anything to really make it memorable. For what it is, it works, but is far from films like Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The film could have been much better and though is fun entertainment, it never becomes anything but mindless and sometimes dull entertainment. I think this film could have been reworked significantly to make it a much better film, and it's a shame that the film is never anything truly good or memorable. The film is simply a decent viewing. The film has some good gags, but most of the time, they fall flat and don't go nowhere. If the script would have been more developed and some parts would have been recast, then maybe this film would have been better. As a whole, the film offered some laughs, but I just felt that the story lacked too much, and really didn't offer anything new to the genre. Despite this fact, this is a fun, mindless film that has its moments despite the fact that it's a decent teen comedy. I didn't hate the film; I just feel it could have been much better. If you're looking a mindless entertaining ride, Can't Hardly Wait is worth seeing, just don't expect anything great with this film. The film does provide good laughs even if it's not a classic by any means.

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  Super Reviewer
• Sep 06, 2011

  "Yo, I gotta have sex tonight! I mean peep this - They say here ninety-two percent of the honeys at UCLA are sexually active. Ninety-two of the women in Los Angeles at UCLA walking around going, "Class... or sex? What shall I do?" Ninety-two percent, yo! Hey, you know what that means?" "If I had known you would've been in here pleasuring yourself" "Look, there's a mirror right there....you're white." Flashback to the notorious school years where the actors and actresses portray the anguish and the ecstasy of high school perfectly! It is absolutely loaded with cameos from the hottest stars before they became famous: Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina), Selma Blair (Cruel Intentions), Sean Patrick Thomas (Cruel Intentions), Breckin Meyer (Ghosts of a Girlfriend Past), Jason Segel (I love you Man), Jerry O'Connell (Scream 2) and many more. An amusing teen film about a high school guy who has been infatuated with the most popular girl for four years! The whole setting is a graduation party where Amanda (the popular girl played by Jennifer love Hewitt) finds a letter written by the guy that likes her. Amanda has just realized that her football hero boyfriend is a moron who gets off on mooning the cashier at Burger King and giving the freshmen wedgies; and there's Preston (Ethan Embry), the ordinary quiet guy who has idolized her for four years and whom she's never so much as noticed. Also in this movie is Seth Green as Kenny Fisher (a young white suburbanite who better identifies with African American culture). His timing and his tact (or lack thereof) is ridiculously funny. The way he walks talks and acts is just plain out hilarious. His only goal is to get laid but he ends up in deep conversation with a childhood friend, a dumpy little girl (Lauren Ambrose) he abandoned freshman year because she was in all the "smart" classes and had no money. Then we have Charlie Korsmo as William Lichter, the geek (Ack! STEREOTYPES!) who crashes the party in a bizarre sabotage attempt, but by the time he leaves the party, he OWNS it. I also like Melissa Joan Hart, who played an annoying yearbook girl who asks everyone to sign her yearbook and Jenna Elfman as the angel stripper, witty as ever.

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